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JPost ZOA Op-Ed: Why Did Obama Not Condemn PA for Jew-Free State Demand Share       For more information contact Morton A. Klein 212-481-1500 NEW YORK, October 7, 2016 By Morton A. Klein and Dr. Daniel Mandel Last month the Obama administration took issue with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's criticism of the Palestinian Authority's policy of establishing a Jew-free Palestinian state. Mr. Netanyahu had said in a video that "the Palestinian leadership actually demands a Palestinian state with one precondition: No Jews. There's a phrase for that: It's called ethnic cleansing. And this demand is outrageous. It's even more outrageous that the world doesn't find this outrageous." Be the first to know – Join our Facebook page. For that piece of commentary, the Obama administration responded – not by agreeing that the PA's policy of creating a Jew-free state would indeed amount to outrageous ethnic cleansing, but by ignoring it and instead pretending that Mr. Netanyahu had spoken about building homes for Jews in Jewish communities in Judea/Samaria (West Bank). The State Department's Elizabeth Trudeau stated, "We obviously strongly disagree with the characterization that those who oppose settlement activity or view it as an obstacle to peace are somehow calling for ethnic cleansing of Jews from the West Bank." The Obama adminstration subscribes to the widespread international orthodoxy that a Palestinian state cannot be formed unless Jews are removed from the West Bank. But Mahmoud Abbas can scarcely be said to agree with that denial: In 2010, he said, "If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won't agree to the presence of one Israeli in it." He said much the same again in 2013: "In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli – civilian or soldier – on our lands." Other senior Palestinian figures have made similar pronouncements to Arab audiences (PA utterances to Western audiences are often rather different). For example, the widely touted "moderate," Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, said in Arabic on Al Jazeera TV, "No Jew in the world, now or in the future, as a result of this document, will have the right to return, to live, or to demand to live in Hebron, in east Jerusalem, or anywhere in the Palestinian state." The Obama administration has said nothing, let alone something condemnatory, of these Palestinian statements – but immediately criticized Mr. Netanyahu's condemnation of them. Similarly, illegal Arab construction has never been the subject of rebuke from this administration. This is odd. A PA policy affirming that no Jews may live in a future Palestinian state is admirably explicit. It's not about "settlements." It's about Jews living within a Palestinian state. And since the PA officially demands the entirety of the West Bank, or very close to that, this PA policy means the removal of Jews from virtually the whole of the territory. That's ethnic cleansing, not the related but distinct issue of "opposing settlement activity." That being the case, why then did the Obama administration refuse to condemn the PA policy of uprooting of Jews from the West Bank, if, in fact, US policy has nothing to do with ethnic cleansing? Why the indulgence of the Palestinian Arabs in asserting this policy? Because the Obama administration, while not explicitly supporting the Palestinian policy of ending the Jewish presence in the West Bank, subscribes to the widespread international orthodoxy that a Palestinian state cannot be formed unless Jews are removed from the West Bank. But, of course, if there were to be a genuine peace agreement, there should be no reason why Jews couldn't live in a hypothetical Palestinian state, just as 1.6 million Arabs live as citizens in Israel. Still less so, when Jews in the West Bank live on less than 2% of the territory, the majority of whom would in any case be incorporated into Israel under any conceivable agreement. They also constitute but a fraction of the population and in no way therefore threaten the Palestinian Arab preponderance there. In practice, however, everyone knows, though few say publicly, that the safety of Jews could scarcely be guaranteed in an actual, as opposed to a theoretically peaceful, Palestinian state. The constant drumfire of incitement to hatred and murder of Jews that has permeated the PA-controlled media, mosques, schools and youth camps ever since the PA was established in 1994 is eloquent and depressing testimony to this fact – as is the perpetual silence of Western leaders on this score. To admit these realities would be to rain on the peace parade, so they are brushed aside. This shouldn't surprise: creating a Palestinian state has long replaced creating peace as an international preoccupation. In short, in their anxiety to ignore grim, underlying realities and in their impatience to produce a settlement and appease wider Arab opinion, Western countries, including the US under President Obama, press for a Palestinian state on Palestinian terms. As this episode shows, they do not appreciate being reminded of the ugly ramifications they would rather not name. Morton A. Klein is national president of the Zionist Organization of America. Dr. Daniel Mandel is director of the ZOA' s Center for Middle East Policy and author of H.V. Evatt and the Establishment of Israel (Routledge, London, 2004). This article was published by JPost and may be found here.

Full story can be found here:  http://zoa.org/2016/10/10338486-jpost-zoa-op-ed-why-did-obama-not-condemn-pa-for-jew-free-state-demand/

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Fwd: Har HaZeitim Preservation » News October 2016

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Amazing progress on security, preservation, restoration and development of Har HaZeitim is now attracting visitors, tourists (including the Royal family of England) and family members of those who are buried to the most ancient, historical cemetary of the world.

From the posts on their website, ICPHH working in partnership and in collboration with the government of Israel are doing a magnificent job bli ayin hara. May they go from strength to strength!

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Hoshiva Shofteinu keVaRishona...Atem Nitzavim Hayom! Time to Push for Judicial change to be consistent with Torah as per Marianbad Resolution 1937 of Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah. Read Does "Rule of Law" exist in Israel by Prof. Paul Eiidelberg

BS"D

Lichvod Rabbanim, MK's, Fellow activists for Eretz Yisroel, amv"sh

Rabbosai,  please consider that the time is ripe for Torah Leaders, MK's to push for an Israeli Judicial System consistent with Torah.  

As it says in Parshat Nitzavim read on the Shabbat before Rosh Hashana.

Lo Bashamayim Hi..

דברים, פרק ל', פסוק י

י  כִּי תִשְׁמַע בְּקוֹל יְ-וָה אֱלֹ-יךָ לִשְׁמֹר מִצְו‍ֹתָיו וְחֻקֹּתָיו הַכְּתוּבָה בְּסֵפֶר הַתּוֹרָה הַזֶּה כִּי תָשׁוּב אֶל יְ-וָה אֱלֹ-יךָ בְּכָל לְבָבְךָ וּבְכָל נַפְשֶׁךָ:

מקור הביטוי הוא בספר דברים, פרק ל', פסוק י"א-יד:

כִּי הַמִּצְוָה הַזֹּאת, אֲשֶׁר אָנֹכִי מְצַוְּךָ הַיּוֹם לֹא-נִפְלֵאת הִוא מִמְּךָ וְלֹא רְחֹקָה הִוא. לֹא בַשָּׁמַיִם הִוא לֵאמֹר, מִי יַעֲלֶה-לָּנוּ הַשָּׁמַיְמָה וְיִקָּחֶהָ לָּנוּ וְיַשְׁמִעֵנוּ אֹתָהּ וְנַעֲשֶׂנָּה. וְלֹא-מֵעֵבֶר לַיָּם הִוא לֵאמֹר, מִי יַעֲבָר-לָנוּ אֶל-עֵבֶר הַיָּם וְיִקָּחֶהָ לָּנוּ, וְיַשְׁמִעֵנוּ אֹתָהּ וְנַעֲשֶׂנָּה. כִּי-קָרוֹב אֵלֶיךָ הַדָּבָר מְאֹד, בְּפִיךָ וּבִלְבָבְךָ, לַעֲשֹׂתוֹ.

Devarim Chapter 30: 10:14

10 when you obey the Lord, your God, to observe His commandments and His statutes written in this Torah scroll, [and] when you return to the Lord, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul.

11 For this commandment which I command you this day, is not concealed from you, nor is it far away.

12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will go up to heaven for us and fetch it for us, to tell [it] to us, so that we can fulfill it?"

13 Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us and fetch it for us, to tell [it] to us, so that we can fulfill it?"

14 Rather,[this] thing is very close to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can fulfill it.

15 Behold, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil,

 

טו  רְאֵה נָתַתִּי לְפָנֶיךָ הַיּוֹם אֶת הַחַיִּים וְאֶת הַטּוֹב וְאֶת הַמָּוֶת וְאֶת הָרָע:

Prof. Paul Eidelberg writes:  Does the "Rule of Law" Exist in Israel?  http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/10/paul-eidelberg-does-rule-of-law-exist.html

MK Ruby Rivlin, before he was elected President, had the candor and courage to admit that what is called the rule of law in Israel is really "a gang that rules under the façade of the rule of law." 

Fwd: Atem Nitzavim, Anavim, Anavim, Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah  http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/2016/10/fwd-atem-nitzavim-anavim-anavim-moetzet.html

To all the Likud Members who are standing strong against the destruction of Amona, Chazaq VeEmatz!

We know there are those who are accusing you of undermining the Law.   

Read the Jewish Week article 

Likud Undermining Court On Outposts? 

New legislation seen aimed at averting demolition of 'wildcat' communities.  

Fri, 09/23/2016 - 10:45 

Nathan Jeffay 

http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/letter-israel/likud-undermining-court-outposts

The opposite is true!  Read the other side of the Amona Conflict  http://shemittahrediscovered.blogspot.com/search?q=Amona&max-results=20&by-date=true  

Why are Liberal Jews so overly concerned with the property rights of Palestinians while endangering Jewish lives? (Especially when these claims are invented by NGO's out for Israel's destruction.)  Why must we have blind faith in the Israeli courts with their own agenda especially when they are not transparent? 

Why can't we accept that the Land was rightfully conquered by Israel in a war started by Israel's enemies as have all countries of the world including the United States of America?  Would you push for America to return Texas or New Mexico to Native Americans?  

To these Liberal Jews....

We are proud to proclaim that legitimizing Jewish Outposts in Judea and Samaria is the precedent  we seek,  as per the source of all Righteous Laws, the Law of Moshe and Israel, consistent to G-d's Law.

 and yes it is the right Solution! 

And if a 2 State Solution is so important, let us set up a prototype Torah State in Judea and Samaria, living side by side in peace and harmony with its sister State, the State of Israel.   Give it a chance and the beauty and justice of Torah will win us over.  The Biblical Path to Peace!

Time to repent. Time to Choose the Torah. Time to Choose Life! Only then will peace and prosperity come... not only to Jews but all Noahides, Arabs and non Jews living in Israel and the entire world!

The World will Recognize G-d and Sing G-d's praises and G-d will be anointed  as King by the entire world! These are our prayers for Rosh Hashana!

Shana Tova! May we be blessed with a Ketiva VeChatima Tova!